Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:46:45 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com>, jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, danial_thom@yahoo.com, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607240946g6593af27h3cc9621bd8e8e32e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060713181058.56349.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <002101c6af09$aacf32f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0607240646i318c8b83xb3f5f7e81f1fabd@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/24/06, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > Ted, > > On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > > > > All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 > > and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. > > > > How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: "Support for > 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration option) has been > removed. Users running this class of CPU should use FreeBSD 5.*X* or > earlier." > > Use a i486 then... The point he's trying to make is still valid. This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100 dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you going to do with it? Play solitaire? * In are hypothetical situation Windows 3.1 is a 64-bit SMP aware OS, it's not in real life and this should help drive home the point ted is trying to make. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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